One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
JAMES JOYCEOne great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot.
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.
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I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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They lived and laughed and loved and left.
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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.
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Places remember events.
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And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.
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Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.
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The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
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Wipe your glasses with what you know.
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Time is, time was, but time shall be no more.
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God made food; the devil the cooks.
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White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
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Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
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He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.
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